NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Archie, Billy
Licensed Year(s): 2006
Summary: Statistics indicate a burden of chronic diseases in the community of Aklavik, with 17.6% of individuals receiving care for one or more chronic conditions. Driven by elders and youth of the community, measurement of risk factors and associated diseases is planned so that programs to promote wellness can be implemented and evaluated. A mechanism for youth to collect and manage data around risk fac...

Principal Investigator: Underwood, Jane
Licensed Year(s): 2007
Summary: This national study addresses the enablers and barriers to the practice of nursing in Community Health settings. Factors that hinder as well as facilitate Community Health Nurses to practise the competencies associated with their specialty will be investigated. The information obtained in this project will assist policy planners in improving efficiency in the deployment of nurses and in better sup...

Principal Investigator: Sharma, Sangita
Licensed Year(s): 2006
Summary: The Healthy Stores project aims to improve health and prevent obesity and disease in communities through culturally-appropriate, store-based interventions. In the Northwest Territories, the project will be carried out in five phases. In 2006, it is planned that work in the first three phases will be executed. The Principal Investigator, Dr. Sharma, will train local health professionals in the Bea...

Principal Investigator: Danon-Schaffer, Monica N
Licensed Year(s): 2006
Summary: Given the threats of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and their widespread appearance in marine mammals and far northern communities, identifying the sources of these compounds and of various PBDE congeners in air, water and soil are of utmost importance. Potential ecological and human health risks, and increasing concentrations of PBDEs in the environment require early implementation of con...

Principal Investigator: Beveridge, Christopher
Licensed Year(s): 2006 2005
Summary: The overall goal of this program is to establish a time trend of specific environmental contaminants in human blood and hair. A baseline study was completed in the Inuvik region in 1999–2000. A follow-up assessment to this baseline study will be undertaken this year to observe human exposure to specific contaminants across a representative cross-section of moderately and highly exposed regions (In...

Principal Investigator: Kutz, Susan M.
Licensed Year(s): 2005
Summary: Wildlife in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions are very important renewable resources. Wildlife populations can be disturbed by wildlife diseases, and the people who harvest, handle and consume wildlife can be affected by wildlife diseases too (meat not good...

Principal Investigator: Ip, Janet
Licensed Year(s): 2004
Summary: The purpose of this research is to produce a 10 minute documentary video that offers an intimate portrait of youth living in Inuvik. Youth will tell their stories in their own voices through their choice of photos. Up to 40 preteens, teens and young adul...

Principal Investigator: Mill, Judy
Licensed Year(s): 2004
Summary: Aboriginal youth are being recruited to complete a survey about HIV testing and care. This project has been guided by an Advisory Committee that includes representatives from Aboriginal youth, and First Nations, MÚtis, and Inuit communities and is being...

Principal Investigator: Povey, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 2005 2004 2003 2002
Summary: This project is a continuation of socio-economic and traditional knowledge studies in the Gwich'in Settlement Area, which were initiated in 2002 as part of the baseline studies and assessment for the Mackenzie Gas Project. The primary focus of the socio...

Principal Investigator: Miller, Judith
Licensed Year(s): 2003
Summary: The purpose of this study is to explore the ways in which Aboriginal Social Work Managers/Supervisors who live and work in rural/remote northern communities take care of themselves (i.e., maintain their physical/mental health), and, from their experience...